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I googled it here and all I got was this lousy lawsuit.

I searched on google news, and I found a few different sources:
Advanced Media Network, GameCube Europe, Gamesradar.com.

If you go through the sources, you'll see that AMN's source is GameCube Europe. GameCube Europe's sources is Aussie-Nintendo. Gamesradar says that its info came from Australian internet reports, and it gives a quote that is directly from Aussie-Nintendo, so it's fairly safe to assume that Aussie-Nintendo is their source too. If I had to take a wild guess where this started, I'd say it started there.

Aussie-Nintendo says that they got this info by emailing Nintendo of America. This could definitely be a hoax. If it was official word from Nintendo, wouldn't they have a press release rather than just emailing some random guy?

However, a Nintendo representative could have released that information without knowing that it was a secret, or this could be Nintendo trying to build up hype. It's too late to know for sure, but we definitely don't know for certain whether this is the truth or just a hoax. Right now it's pretty much just internet rumours.

...10 percent of UK web sites are hosted at the domain http://www.msn.co.uk./

Hmm, they sure seem to want to make it a crime: Thought Thieves

On the contrary, many will be free to download

that is a GREAT idea! I'd like to see a similar service for Google Images, sorted by PageRank.

Unfortunately, his Unsafe Search doesn't seem to work very well:


Unsafe Search Results

A Google query for microsoft returned 53,300,000 normal results and 0 SafeSearch results,
making it 0.0 percent safe.

Of the top 30 normal query results, the following 3 results were "unsafe":

1. MSN UK
Portal and ISP offering subscription-free and monthly pre-paid packages from Microsoft.
http://www.msn.co.uk/ -

2. MSN Search
Miscroft provides search of the web, news, images and its own encyclopedia, Encarta.
Also offers desktop search via a toolbar.
http://search.msn.com/ - 4k

3. http://www.windowsupdate.com/

it's warming to know that these actually run game code full speed

Full speed? I was under the impression (as are most media outlets) that the G5 'alpha kits' seen at the show are nowhere near able to run Xbox 360 game code at full speed.

Tabbed browsing?

Sounds like Microsoft is trying to inspire kids entering their thought thieves competetion.

Will you please do some reasearch on your own http://entertainment.msn.co.uk/films/default.asp Ok? Happy? If it was just a user you could type in www.msn.co.uk/bob/ and there would be a site, there isn't, or you could try any other names and there would be some users page. I figured that wouldn't be a good enough response so I had to find the page that showed a link to the thought thieves contest. It was in entertainment/movies I believe.

What are we looking for?
Understanding of intellectual property theft - your film should demonstrate a clear understanding of intellectual property theft and the impact this can have
- (url)

Should i be selected as a finalist in this competition, I confirm the following:
7. I will formally licence, on terms acceptable to Microsoft, all intellectual property rights in my film and agree to waive all moral rights in relation to my film if requested to do so.
- (url)

What are we looking for?
Understanding of intellectual property theft - your film should demonstrate a clear understanding of intellectual property theft and the impact this can have
- (url)

Should i be selected as a finalist in this competition, I confirm the following:
7. I will formally licence, on terms acceptable to Microsoft, all intellectual property rights in my film and agree to waive all moral rights in relation to my film if requested to do so.
- (url)

I will formally licence, on terms acceptable to Microsoft, all intellectual property rights in my film and agree to waive all moral rights in relation to my film if requested to do so. I understand that if I do not complete the necessary documentation by the stated date, my entry will be disqualified from the competition.

Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights

According to TFA here: http://www.msn.co.uk/thoughtthieves/creating/ "The theme of your film should be about how intellectual property theft affects both individuals and society. Think about it: what would a world look like without protection for intellectual property?" (emphasis mine) So why not make a positive film showing how free information exchange could improve everyone around the globes' access to vital information? :)

This gave me some good ideas for parody submissions. Either a hugely exaggerated sarcastic one -- where this future IPless world is a barren wasteland where "thought theft" has degenerated into actual theft, and nobody has any reservation about stealing, so everyone locks themselves into their homes just for defense -- or a Microsoft-mocking portrayal of a future IPless world as a glorious utopia of free thought and sharing of ideas for collective technological progress.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time or the video-making skills to do either of these, but anyone's welcome to steal these thoughts.

I have a feeling it's not

Actually there's an 18 and older category as well.

It might be counterproductive, but it would let them catch up with MSN who let you have news search results in RSS format - eg:

http://search.msn.co.uk/news/results.aspx?q=uk+vet erinary&format=rss&form=zznr

google

msn

yahoo!

apart from the top result from each search (the article itself), there's no sign of mr buck..

Well, interestingly my search for circumspect elephantitis displays exactly one result - the same number as the same search on Google!.

But the REALLY interesting thing about this is that the results are different - how about THAT for a Moogle Whack?!

Personally I'm just pleased I'm 1st for 'fuck microsoft' :)

Click here

Yeah, but if you take out the 'kelly ripa' and just search under 'camel toe' you do get some hits. The eerie thing is that Britney Spears somehow manages to make it into the first page of these search results too!

Though, as if to prove your original point, adding 'britney' to that search also gets no results.

P.S. You'll almost certainly like cameltoe.bolt.com

Searching for 'bill gates' in MSN returns the page Bill Gates As Mabus. Apparently this project is dedicated to finding the human manifestation of the anti-Christ.

None of the first 10 results (searching from the uk) return his homepage.

Searching with Google turns up Bill Gates' Web Site - Home Page.

Which means: Stick to Google.

Other searches don't appear to be similar. I'm guessing that perhaps these companies have paid for higher placement on the example used in the article?

Mitch Crim of Nintendo of America spelt it out further saying, "The Nintendo DS will be a universal system that can be played anywhere on the planet. Further, it can play games purchased anywhere. Please note, however, that accessories purchased in different parts of the world may not be compatible with the Nintendo DS you purchase."

Correct, my anonymous friend.

Register your current address, reply to the email you're sent and voila - you have a .net passport you can use for messenger.

One sign-in, works everywhere - Well, they tried.

The first one wasn't too bad as an RTS, but overly difficult to control.

But, the new FPS game looks great!

Worthplaying - Xb - 91%
Gamers Hell - PC - 86%
Ferrago - PS2 - 82%
Gamesradar - PS2 - 81%

"[I]t looks like you're holding a giant ear"".

-Stephen

Finding a valid message number is of course total guesswork, but they do all follow a consistent format and always have the same number of digits (i.e., a time stamp), so with the help of a little brute-force program one could (if one was into these things) try numerous combinations in the background rather than type them in.

So the hacking danger here is very much limited by the need to guess message numbers, which is slow going. And while there is a handy program for bruting the numbers it's quite slow, trying only about one message page per second in 'fast' mode.

Theres a little story about it on the msn.co.uk website

More info on MSN UK

My IE homepage is currently down with ERROR 312.

Perhaps this is a Y2K problem.

Well done Micros~1 :)